{"id":3937,"date":"2008-06-12T00:01:22","date_gmt":"2008-06-12T07:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/?p=3937"},"modified":"2013-04-14T13:58:56","modified_gmt":"2013-04-14T20:58:56","slug":"godchild-volume-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/2008\/06\/12\/godchild-volume-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Godchild Volume 8"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is time for the truth to be told.\u00a0 At last, all the secrets of the Hargreaves family are brought from the dark into the harsh light of day, as Cain’s epic adventures draw to a close.\u00a0 Is Cain ready to find out who he truly is?\u00a0 Are you ready?<\/em><\/p>\n

\"godchild<\/a>By Kaori Yuki<\/strong>
\nPublisher:<\/strong> Viz Media
\nRating:<\/strong> 16+
\nGenre:<\/strong> Drama\/Horror
\nPrice:<\/strong> $8.99<\/p>\n

This is it. After 12 volumes of mystery and intrigue (including the Cain Saga<\/em>), we finally have a resolution to all the main characters fates.\u00a0 It is the end of Delilah and the evil mastermind behind all the suffering of the Hargreaves family, but the villain isn’t who you’d expect.<\/p>\n

This volume starts off with Cain saying his final goodbyes before going to try to stop Delilah and have his final confrontation with his father.\u00a0 He still must struggle past Delilah’s Cards as his father prepares for Judgement Day and the resurrection of the soul of his dead sister Augusta and Cain’s mother.\u00a0 When Cain finally reaches the Delilah’s headquarters, each confrontation ends in a resolution for each character.\u00a0 Cain is able to face his father, and finish what he started in the Cain Saga, as well as resolve things with Riff.\u00a0 The story ends on a semi-happy note, though we are left wondering Cain’s true fate.<\/p>\n

I was surprised by the end of this series, and was broadsided by the reveal of the true villain.\u00a0 What I really enjoyed about this series, is the way all the loose ends were tied up.\u00a0 There were no sudden gimmicks introduced to explain anything.\u00a0 Everything that happened in the volumes leading up to this was related.\u00a0 Even things that seemed to have one time uses, such as the mausoleum trap at the end of Cain Saga, return.\u00a0 I also appreciated the way Yuki manipulated the narrative to completely hide the villain until the very end.\u00a0 She had me going completely, but then added the missing pieces that turned the story around without having to change anything we had seen.\u00a0 In all, it was an excellent conclusion.<\/p>\n

There was only one thing that kept me re-reading was the end.\u00a0 Cain’s fate is left unresolved.\u00a0 You can’t tell from the final frame if he is dead or not.\u00a0 Other scenes make you wonder if he is, but the final scene with Crenador leaves some doubt.\u00a0 I guess this ambiguity isn’t bad, as it leaves Cain’s fate up to the reader, but I would have preferred a little more concrete of an answer.<\/p>\n

After spending so much time with these characters, it was nice to see them all get what they deserved, for good or for bad.\u00a0 Yuki’s art is beautiful, though her men can sometimes look too much alike.\u00a0 The gore is pulled off without being too graphic, mostly blood spatters and skeletons with their implications being more scary than actually seeing it.\u00a0 Godchild<\/em> was a thrilling ride, and this is the perfect end to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It is time for the truth to be told.\u00a0 At last, all the secrets of the Hargreaves family are brought from the dark into the harsh light of day, as Cain’s epic adventures draw to a close.\u00a0 Is Cain ready to find out who he truly is?\u00a0 Are you ready? By Kaori Yuki Publisher: Viz Media Rating: 16+ Genre: Drama\/Horror Price: $8.99 This is it. After 12 volumes of mystery and intrigue (including the Cain Saga), we finally have a resolution to all the main characters fates.\u00a0 It is the end of Delilah and the evil mastermind behind all the suffering of the Hargreaves family, but the villain isn’t who you’d expect. This volume starts off with Cain saying his final goodbyes before going to try to stop Delilah and have his final confrontation with his father.\u00a0 He still must struggle past Delilah’s Cards as his father prepares for Judgement Day and the resurrection of the soul of his dead sister Augusta and Cain’s mother.\u00a0 When Cain finally reaches the Delilah’s headquarters, each confrontation ends in a resolution for each character.\u00a0 Cain is able to face his father, and finish what he started in the Cain Saga, as well as…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3940,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[83,99,110,120,121,208],"class_list":["post-3937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reviews","tag-manga","tag-older-teen","tag-review","tag-shojo","tag-shojo-beat","tag-viz-media"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/files\/2013\/04\/godchild-8.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2umma-11v","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3937"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3937"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3955,"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3937\/revisions\/3955"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}